Not booting, stuck on the white LED.

[timid kettle]

which LED? there should be a little label next to them, assuming they're the ez-debug leds

[hazy radish]

White

[timid kettle]

which LEDs though? can you take a picture?

[timid kettle]

gotcha, pretty sure that's the VGA light

oh it's dram for this one

[hazy radish]

Yep

[timid kettle]

oh never mind the picture is upside down lmao

[hazy radish]

The borad is upside down

[timid kettle]

are you sure your gpu is fully seated? have you double checked the display cable is plugged into the gpu and not the motherboard i/o?

[hazy radish]

I took the gpu out to isolate the issue

[timid kettle]

ah well unless you have integrated graphics you're gonna have to put it back in to get the light to go away

[hazy radish]

It does have a igpu

[timid kettle]

gotcha, and still getting the same issue?

[hazy radish]

Yep

[timid kettle]

what model processor/motherboard?

[hazy radish]

10850k
Rog z490 strix

[timid kettle]

did you end up clearing cmos or no

[hazy radish]

I pressed the button on the back for 5min and still have the same problem

[timid kettle]

and you have both 4 and 8 pin cpu cables plugged in?

also i would maybe try each ram stick individually to see if maybe one of them is bad, or a different kit altogether if you have one

[hazy radish]

Yes

[timid kettle]

are you sure the cables and monitor work? maybe double check monitor has power and source is set correctly, or try with a different machine if you can'

[hazy radish]

I tried two different monitors, nothing

Different cable types too

[timid kettle]

do you have both cable types plugged in at the same time or just one

[hazy radish]

Tried each and then both at the same time to see what would happen

[timid kettle]

gotcha

[hazy radish]

The pins look fine, one looked a Lil odd if I looked it at a wired angle, but looking down they look fine. I even was careful taking in out and in and covered the socket when I cleaned the cpu.

[timid kettle]

hmmm

[hazy radish]

It was working fine when before I repasted it, just thought it was running a bit hot

[timid kettle]

i would maybe take a second look at that pin... other than that i'm not sure, esd is definitely a possibility. maybe double check to make sure there's no debris or anything on the board, or trapped behind it if you can see back there.

you can kind of use your phone camera as a microscope, it's not great but better than nothing

what thermal paste do you use?

[hazy radish]

My luck it shorted it

But it passed the cpu post code 🤷🏻‍♂️

[timid kettle]

ah yep, that'd do it 😄

working now?

[hazy radish]

No everytime I try to boot it go yellow, red and go to white and stays there

[timid kettle]

oh, i thought you meant you found the short

[hazy radish]

No haha, just saying that'll be my luck

[timid kettle]

well, i would say that's not unlikely 😄 if i were you i would take off the cooler and double check, clean up with some IPA if you have it. it's possible the cpu is fine but one of the pcie lanes is shorted to ground or something. probably not a permanent issue, should likely still work if you clean off the paste

[hazy radish]

Ipa?

[timid kettle]

isopropyl alcohol

[hazy radish]

Clean what off tho, its basically spotless or do you mean clean the CPU?

[timid kettle]

if there isn't any then there isn't any i suppose. could look around to see if some accidentally got elsewhere but knowing that you have a conductive thermal paste definitely makes me think that's the most likely issue

[hazy radish]

Only thing I can think of is that some got pushed under the ihs

[timid kettle]

def possible

[hazy radish]

.. Mf

[hazy radish]

Can I even clean that or is it just screwed

[timid kettle]

oh wait sorry i misread, no not likely it's under the IHS

more likely it's pushed into the socket but ultimately that's not super likely either

[hazy radish]

I'm at a loss then..

[timid kettle]

if you haven't taken the cpu out of the socket and double checked i'd do that

[hazy radish]

Yeah I did earlier

But wouldnt it be stuck on the red led if it was a fault with the cpu to that point

[timid kettle]

no, because it could be something that's not critical to cpu function but is needed to output video that's shorted

[hazy radish]

I wanna cry that I had like a perfect mount..

[timid kettle]

Those look fine... i definitely see a bit of the paste on the edge of the IHS and the socket but it doesn't look like it's shorting anything. i would look on the board in the area around the socket

[hazy radish]

The little bit on the edge of the socket happened earlier when tried troubleshooting it

[hazy radish]

Cleaned it

Back side looks fine as well

[hazy radish]

We're back baby 😏😏😏